Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton could sign the real welfare bill as he has promised, could appoint a professional to ensure that we get universal health care, could make social policy changes the likes of which we have not seen since the times of Kennedy and Johnson. He must seize the minds and energies of Americans with a plan that doesn't merely patch holes...
...murders hardened Bennett's already tough attitudes toward crime and drugs, and changed his life in other ways. He was promoted to president of the humanities center, where his brash critiques of liberalism moved President Reagan to appoint him in 1981 to run the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington. The following year Bennett married Elayne Glover, a teacher with a strong social conscience whom he had met in North Carolina...
...successfully argued a ballot-stuffing case that nearly cheated Carter out of a state Senate seat. Kirbo went on to advise Carter in his gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, as well as on the running of the White House. Kirbo always preferred anonymity, declining Governor Carter's offer to appoint him to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat...
Although the search committee had hoped to appoint a new director by the beginning of this academic year, the leading candidate, whom University officials refused to identify, turned down Harvard's offer last month, Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser said in a statement Wednesday...
...former-paratroop general condemned the Russian army's conduct of the war and announced he had a concrete plan to end the fighting, if the government would only concentrate enough power in his hands. Lebed wants control of all army units in the Chechnya, and the authority to appoint federal officials up to the level of deputy minister. But is Lebed's aim only to end the war in Chechnya or to also consolidate his power base within the Kremlin? Lebed, who came into Yeltsin's circle only a few months ago after finishing third in the first round...